Blazing fires............cosy heaters.........warm living-room.........contented little purring cats snuggled up on our laps......howling wind, sleet and rain in the pitch dark outside unable to penetrate the double-glazing..........Jackie Bird shivering in off-the-shoulder frock on BBC Scotland Hogmanay programme reporting on Edinburgh fireworks.....glasses charged.........tummies full..........well, it's too good to be true isn't it. So what does Carrie do? - chivvies us all outside into the (*^*%(^!! freezing )(*(*)%$!! cold and dark to see in the New Year................
Truly it would not have been a proper Hill House experience if we had all started 2012 being clean, warm and dry..........someone had to fall in the mud and get soaked so Melanie obliged, throwing champagne down your trousers is not usually part of the HH ritual but we could certainly incorporate it for the future.........once the fireworks from Ballachulish had been dimly sighted through the sleet we were allowed to go back in, but not before lighting our sparklers...........Alison had miraculously survived the experience of staggering off the sleeper, being met by Carrie and Fiona and hauled up a mountain in the lashing rain to be soaked to the skin while suffering from a virus..............what doesn't kill you will make you stronger and all that................
These are not black-and-white photos, this is what it looks like. We are having lots of weather. Trip to Kyle yesterday to see Charlotte & Peter, beautiful views and interesting road conditions..........Carrie and Fiona tried to set fire to Ferndale with a massive box of fireworks but yet again we all survived so they will have to think of something else............
